Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

Hope burns eternal in the human heart.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

All which happens through the whole world happens through hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he did not hope it would spring up and bring forth the ear; how much more we are helped on by hope in the eternal life.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

While we breathe, we will hope.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

I know for sure that everything will work out. No matter how crazy or bleak the situation is, it will work out. Everything passes, good and bad.